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Is small really so ugly?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2004

ENRICO SPOLAORE
ENRICO SPOLAORE
Affiliation:
Tufts University
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Abstract

The number of sovereign states has steadily increased over the past few decades and is rapidly approaching two hundred. Many of these countries are small. The median country size in terms of population is around five million people. Tuvalu, the smallest state with a seat at the United Nations, has 11,000 people. The smallest country in the sample studied by Winters and Martins (W&M) is Niue, a self-governing country in free association with New Zealand, with only 2,000 inhabitants.

Type
Research Article
Information
World Trade Review , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , November 2004 , pp. 447 - 452
Copyright
2004 Enrico Spolaore

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